Sport: In the Gloaming

Every spectator, every player, every
sportswriter, every peanut vendor, even the umpires paid to get into
Ebbets Field that afternoon. The Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the New
York Giants in the first war benefit the big-league ball clubs had
given. Instigated by Dodger Boss Leland Stanford MacPhail, who tried to
kidnap the Kaiser in 1918, the game grossed $60,000 (every cent of
which was turned over to the Navy Relief Society), set a noble
precedent for other clubs to follow.

It was also the first major-league ball game ever played at twilight....